Subject: Advertising

• Of Caddies and Paddies

  February 26, 2007

• Teachers Don't Like 'Em Flat

  September 18, 2007

• Teachers Don't Like 'Em Flat

  September 18, 2007

• Wire Sells Victoria's Secret Lingerie

  November 9, 2007

• No Depression Magazine to Cease Its Print Publication

  February 19, 2008

• AdOne Media CEO Jim Neumann Files for Bankruptcy

  April 16, 2008

• McCain Ad That Says 'Hot Chicks Dig Obama' Includes Two FOX2 Reporters

  August 14, 2008

• For All You Joe Six-Packs

  October 6, 2008

• St. Louis Post-Dispatch Gets Political With Its Online Advertising

  On the eve of Election Day two weeks ago, some online readers of the Post-Dispatch opened their inboxes to find an intriguing note from the local daily: an e-mail touting Proposition A, the controversial gambling ballot initiative that aimed to do away with the $500 loss limits enforced at the state’s casinos. Only two weeks prior, the Post’s editorial board had given the ballot initiative a big thumbs-down. What gives?

  November 18, 2008

• AB/InBev Loves It Some Futbol, err, Football

  The economy has several advertisers sitting out this year's Super Bowl, but not AB/InBev. The Belgium-based brewer of Bud Light and everyone's favorite, Hoegaarden, has bought four-and-a-half minutes of time during the February 1 contest. The company's creative director, Bob Lachky, tells the San Francisco Chronicle that marketing plans for the game are unaffected by the economic doldrums. In fact, he sees the day as a balm. "To have fun with friends and family -- that

  January 13, 2009

• The Great Gatorade Commercial Caper

  Have you seen the new Gatorade commercials? Sure you have. Those kind of annoying new ones with a bunch of athletes in a row, all in black and white, while Lil' Wayne talks about the letter G? Yup, those are the ones. Well, beyond the fact that the thing already reads like a "Letter People Land" script, I also couldn't shake the feeling that I had seen that exact advertisement before the first time one of the new "G" ones came on.

  January 20, 2009

• PETA Veggie Ad Too Hot for TV

  PETA produced a Super Bowl ad urging viewers to go veggie. It was deemed too hot to broadcast. Give 'em credit: PETA understands the football demographic.

  January 29, 2009

• The Really Important Stuff About the Super Bowl -- The Commercials

  We witnessed one of the greatest single games in the history of NFL football last night. The flurry of momentum and lead changes, the outstanding performances by players both known and unknown, and a finish that actually outdid last year's dramatics. Simply outstanding. But, really, does anyone honestly care that much? I mean, I do, but still. We all know why we really watch the Super Bowl, and the reason isn't the football. We watch for the commercials. So which ads got me off my sofa

  February 2, 2009

• Anheuser-Busch Dethroned After 10 Straight Years With Best Super Bowl Commercial

  Hey little buddy. We got some catching up to do. The results are in for USA Today's annual Super Bowl Ad Meter ratings, and for the first time in a decade the winner isn't Anheuser-Busch (or AB InBev, as we affectionately refer to it today).Also for the first-time ever the best commercial wasn't created by an advertising company. This year's top spot went to a pair of unemployed brothers from Indiana who won a contest to create an ad for Doritos. The advertisement, in which office workers use a

  February 2, 2009

• And Now, the Worst Super Bowl Commercials

  You've seen the best, you've seen the rest, now it's time for the worst. Yesterday, I covered the very best advertisements that Super Bowl XLIII had to offer. (By the way, why in the world does the NFL insist on using Roman numerals? Every year, I have to dust off my knowledge of them, just so I can figure out what number Super Bowl we're on. It's a pain in the ass.) And any time you have bests, you have to have worsts, right? 

  February 3, 2009

• Natural Disaster

  March 17, 1999

• How 'Bout That New Hardee's Commercial? You Know, The One With Padma Lakshmi?

  March Madness has taken on Super Bowl status in recent years with advertisers debuting dozens of new commercials during the tourney. This year, one of those ads has received a lot more attention than others -- at least among the folks I've watched the games with over the past two weeks. I'm talking about that new spot from St. Louis-based Hardee's. You know, the one featuring Top Chef  host Padma Lakshmi blowing eating the restaurant's new Western Bacon Thickburger. A friend of mine who wor

  March 30, 2009

• Far from Heaven (2002)

  Week of November 9, 2005

  November 9, 2005

• Rainbow Treat

  June 20, 2007

• Blowing a Fuse

  A black-owned St. Louis advertising firm is stirring the political pot

  September 22, 2004

• The Medium Is the Mess

  October 4, 2000

• Responsibility Matters

  In the trade group known as the Beer Industry, Anheuser-Busch holds sway

  April 19, 2006

• Cocky to the Core

  Meet the hotshots at this St. Louis ad firm. They're special. Just ask them.

  June 22, 2005

• Critical Fatwa

  The Sun

  August 17, 2005

• Best Hair on a Local TV Personality (Female)

  Vickie Newton

  September 29, 2004

• I Want My STL TV

  Public-access music programming is great -- when the public can access it

  July 7, 2004

• Ilya

  Thursday, June 24; Rocket Bar

  June 23, 2004

• Trolling for Endorsements

  We wake up a Margaret Cho-approved congressional hopeful; plus, Unreal gets the Tiger Beat facts on local car dealers and Bill Haas goes south of the border

  June 2, 2004

• Best Local TV Commercial

  Becky's Carpet and Tile Superstore

  September 24, 2003

• Porn Again

  The girls of Vivid Video want to see what you've got

  July 16, 2003

• Wraps

  Crazy Bowls & Wraps

  April 2, 2003

• Chicken Wings

  Culpeppers

  April 2, 2003

• The Pain Train

  Two years later, a digital-video short film became an overnight ad sensation

  February 5, 2003

• The Morells with Brian Capps and Kristie Stremel

  Sunday, November 10; Blueberry Hill's Duck Room

  November 6, 2002

• Best Television PSAs

  "This is St. Louis" media campaign

  September 25, 2002

• Hair Today, Gone Tomorrow

  November 7, 2001

• Best Attorney Who Looks the Part

  September 26, 2001

• Thin-Crust Pizza

  April 18, 2001

• Fast Food

  April 18, 2001

• Shut Yer Piehole, St. Louis: We Got It Good!

  January 10, 2001

• Telepathetic

  December 13, 2000

• Twin Stars

  September 20, 2000

• A FEW "CHOICE" WORDS

  November 24, 1999

• Aaron's Thing of the Week - 22/07/09: The Saturn Suicide Show

  A couple of years ago, there was quite the competition among the major car companies, and it led to a true golden age for us all. It wasn't some sort of race to see who could make the safest car, or the most fuel efficient, or even the most stylish. No, the war I speak of was a quieter sort, a war of sounds and images, a war waged over the airwaves of television. I speak, of course, of the Indie Rock Ad Campaign Wars. 

  July 22, 2009

• Forty Files: Highway 40 Photo Documentary, Vol. 8

  "This project is moving along great, and that's because of the Labor Union and all the organized trades that have all played their part." Wait a second! That's the radio ad for the labor union! I've been brainwashed. Could it be because the radio spot runs every ten minutes during Cardinals games!? But hey, I got to hand it to someone. The highway is moving along rapidly. What was a dirt ravine for months and months (photos here) suddenly looks like an interstate.​In this photo from yesterday

  August 14, 2009

• Oh, Meth! New Campaign Against Meth Use Hopefully as Catchy as Old One

  As we reported last week, U.S. "Drug Czar" Gil Kerlikowske is in St. Louis today to unveil the White House Office of National Drug Policy's new anti-meth campaign. Here's hoping the campaign is as good as the last one featured here.  Continue on to view the full press release of today's announcement and see a spirited cover of the PSA above! 

  September 1, 2009

• More on that Lance Armstong, Michelob Ultra Deal

  Lance occasionally enjoys a cocktail.​Details are emerging on that endorsement deal we mentioned yesterday between cyclist Lance Armstrong and Michelob Ultra. Armstrong was in St. Louis yesterday to publicly unveil the endorsement at the AB brewery on Pestalozzi Street. According to an article today on BusinessWeek's website, Armstrong inked a three-year deal with AB InBev that will have the seven-time Tour de France champ appearing in two Michelob Ultra commercials as well as lending his name

  October 7, 2009

• Is St. Louis Mom Getting Her Teeth Whitened or Getting Intimate with Martian Phallus?

  Click on advertisement for slightly larger image.​Just came across this website advertisement (right) while checking the weather conditions for tonight's Mizzou-Nebraska game in Columbia. (FYI: Conditions will be sloppy as it's been raining there all day, too.)But enough about that. What in God's holy name is the woman doing in this ad? Sure, it implies she's whitening her teeth. But, c'mon, doesn't it look like she's servicing R2-D2?Clicking on the link in the advertisement we discover that t

  October 8, 2009

• Dance St. Louis Wins Award for Sports-Themed Advertisements

  The results are in and Dance St. Louis has taken home the 2009 Mid-America Emmy Award for best commercial campaign.​The performing arts company won the honor for its advertisements juxtaposing dancers with St. Louis professional athletes the likes of Rick Ankiel, Erik Johnson and Chris Draft. Check out all the advertisements here, or continue on to see why Blues defenseman Erik Johnson might want to invest in an acting lesson or two.

  October 9, 2009

• Jackass Carves Jack-o'-Lantern

  ​ Not sure which I like better: The gratuitous use of blood in this bogus infomercial or the gratuitous Boston accent. Come to think of it, I think it's the latter.

  October 30, 2009